2nd HD no longer automounting??? [SOLVED]

[geraldw321]

hi there  been running PCLOS full monty for a month great operating system im very pleased with it and happy too finally dump the windowed system, ill never go back , now all had been fine until a recently .

   i have an acer laptop , v-771 9875 , core i7, cpu, 32 gig ram , 256 gig samsung ssd with the OS  on it  and hitachi 750gig hd for storage. running 3.2.18-pclos2.bfs ,   all of a sudden the storage drive isnt mounting on startup? , i get errors in programs like ktorrent or foxit reader that sdb not mounted? i need to open a file manager and click on that drive only  then will programs like ktorrent or foxit reader  see the drive .

im not sure whats happening since file managers show the drive

[muungwana]

open terminal,run these commands and give their output

cat /etc/fstab

cat /etc/mtab

dmesg | grep -i sdb

[geraldw321]

ok  heres what i have from those commands

[*******@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=776e41d5-61fb-438f-89ec-7b11d060ffe4 / ext4 noatime,discard,defaults 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=c33acbbf-26f1-4f42-bcfe-c1d02a7ee3d4 swap swap defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
[******@localhost ~]$


[******@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,noatime,discard 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/disk fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/******/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=******* 0 0


[******@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep -i sdb
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 1465149168 512-byte logical blocks: (750 GB/698 GiB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-byte physical blocks
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 sdb: sdb1
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

[muungwana]

That drive is configured not to automount,make it do that:

1. start pcc(pclinuxos control center )
2. go to "local disk"
3. click "manage disk partitions"
4. click "sdb" tab
5. click the bar that is below the tab
6. click "toggle to expert mode"
7. click "options"
8. make sure "noauto" is unticked.
9. finish up and click "yes" if asked to save contents to "fstab".

the drive should now automount at boot time.

just to be certain everything is as they should,

rerun and post contents of the following command

cat /etc/fstab

[geraldw321]

hi there   i already checked those settings after install of OS and  noauto is unchecked , has been unchecked since install of OS .  so fstab shows what it is.

[kjpetrie]

If you mean /dev/sdb1 it isn't shown in fstab so it won't be automounted by the system. However, it is being mounted at /media/disk by hald (or so mtab claims).

Where do you want it mounted?

(Incidentally, there are security issues in letting your user name appear on a public forum. Consider changing it after this exchange.)

[Just17]

I use Device Notifier to mount local partitions on boot and no entries in fstab.

[geraldw321]

If you mean /dev/sdb1 it isn't shown in fstab so it won't be automounted by the system. However, it is being mounted at /media/disk by hald (or so mtab claims). 

 NO  sda2  my storage drive

Where do you want it mounted?    I dont know  where it should be mounted??

(Incidentally, there are security issues in letting your user name appear on a public forum. Consider changing it after this exchange.)  THANK YOU    I edited my post 

[geraldw321]

hello again    actually  its  sdb  my second drive the hitachi 750 GIG storage drive , in looking over the fstab and mtab  i dont see it listed???

and i dont know where it was mounted  it was just there when i needed it i could move , copy  files  and downloaded files went there  when saved. 

[Bald Brick]

geraldw321,

To get the drive (or actually the partition /dev/sdb1 on it) automatically mounted Just17's way, right-click the Device Notifier icon in the System Tray on the panel. Then click "Device Notifier settings", then "Removable Devices", and finally tick "Enable automatic mounting of removable media". After that it will be automatically mounted as something like /media/disk.

If you want to mount it somewhere else you need to create an entry for it in /etc/fstab. You can let PCC do it, but it's easy enough to edit the file manually. We can tell you how to do it, if you just tell us where you want to mount the partition.

By the way, the The Device Notifier icon looks like this:




Edit: Corrected embarrassing typo.

[Just17]

I guess I should add my settings for Device Notifier .......

Removable Devices .....  tick Enable automatic mounting of removable devices .....  I then ensure the three boxes under that are UNticked, because I do not want ANY removable device to be mounted except deliberately by me.

In the Device Overrides window I tick whichever partition under "Attached Devices" I wish to have automatically mounted.

Because the internal HDD is permanently attached this does the job of automatically mounting my Data partition (which contains my /home/user files).

My partitions mounted in this manner are mounted under   /media/<partition name>

HTH.

[geraldw321]

geraldw321,

To get the drive (or actually the partition /dev/sdb1 on it) automatically mounted Just17's way, right-click the Device Notifier icon in the System Tray on the panel. Then click "Device Notifier settings", then "Removable Devices", and finally tick "Enable automatic mounting of removable media". After that it will be automatically mounted as something like /mnt/disk.

If you want to mount it somewhere else you need to create an entry for it in /etc/fstab. You can let PCC do it, but it's easy enough to edit the file manually. We can tell you how to do it, if you just tell us where you want to mount the partition.

By the way, the The Device Notifier icon looks like this:

Hello   THIS IS A SECOND INTERNALSYSTEM DRIVE  not a removable external or a usb drive

[Bald Brick]

Hello   THIS IS A SECOND INTERNALSYSTEM DRIVE  not a removable external or a usb drive

Ah, you can set up Device Notifier to show and automount internal drives too. But if your /dev/sdb1 isn't a removable drive and if you want it to be mounted at boot you really should mount it via an entry in /etc/fstab. Muungwana tried to tell you how to create that entry in PCC.

If you followed his advice and it didn't work, or if you want more control over how sdb1 is mounted, you must first tell us where you want to mount it. Under your home directory? under /mnt?

[Just17]

Hello   THIS IS A SECOND INTERNALSYSTEM DRIVE  not a removable external or a usb drive

Ah, you can set up Device Notifier to show and automount internal drives too. But if your /dev/sdb1 isn't a removable drive and if you want it to be mounted at boot you really should mount it via an entry in /etc/fstab. Muungwana tried to tell you how to create that entry in PCC.

If you followed his advice and it didn't work, or if you want more control over how sdb1 is mounted, you must first tell us where you want to mount it. Under your home directory? under /mnt?

....  or he could use Device Notifier as I do (posted above) with no fstab entries 

[geraldw321]

Hello   THIS IS A SECOND INTERNALSYSTEM DRIVE  not a removable external or a usb drive

Ah, you can set up Device Notifier to show and automount internal drives too. But if your /dev/sdb1 isn't a removable drive and if you want it to be mounted at boot you really should mount it via an entry in /etc/fstab. Muungwana tried to tell you how to create that entry in PCC.

If you followed his advice and it didn't work, or if you want more control over how sdb1 is mounted, you must first tell us where you want to mount it. Under your home directory? under /mnt?

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hi there  and thank you ,  i tried what muungwana suggested . and it did not work .  i tried too mount it under the home directory  get error " you need a true filesystem (ext2/3/4,reiser,xfs,or jfs) for this mount point